I am finishing an essay I have been working on for some time and I am finally happy with it. You all knew you wanted a follow-up to my PoMo piece which looked at how it evolved through successive waves of critical theory and into activism & mainstream society, didn't you?
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However, I do intend to subject you all to an essay on (intersectional) feminist epistemology. Because you will all have read PoMo #1 & #2, you will immediately recognise both how this is postmodern and how it is affecting mainstream society.
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Because many POMOs make the mistake themselves of not seeing the contradiction and people closer to the far left, therefore marxists, are more exposed to the dripping of pomo thinking out of academia. That and political goons from right to center making a conflation between them
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I will argue that it is better to avoid this because of the temptation to seize on an easily graspable explanation and then miss the complicated epistemic problem unique to postmodernism which is essential to tackling it at its roots.
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I meant the epistemology generally. The vital difference between Marxism and postmodernism is epistemic. Marxism tries to be right but is wrong. Postmodernism believes there is no right and wrong because of a complex set of tenets which really need to be understood.
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Yes, Marxists are deeply materialist. Pomo are very sceptical of materialism and empiricism.
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Some activists/students do use tools from both movements. As they don't understand why they contradict themselves doing it. Or conveniently ignore the contradiction because of the usefulness of those tools.
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